I'm testing it now. Honestly you couldnt tell this isn't just like before. The main thing sync has over the other clients is speed. Scrolling the feed doesn't result in it jumping everwhere as images load in. They are already loaded and sized properly.
And a million other little things and polish that make it amazing.
(Posted from sync!)
I'm sure it's nothing personal. For instance, I've been using Sync for reddit for over 10 years as my primary method of accessing reddit, so I know this is going to make me a lot more comfortable using Lemmy.
Liftoff has been great. Really got me addicted again to a scrolling feed and the easier navigation. Was starting to break the habit because mobile browser isn't as slick. Been a sync user for over a decade so that'll be my daily driver when it's ready. There's nothing wrong with liftoff, it's just not where my heart is.
Oh yes, I remember, Christmas of 1998, my dad got it for me and my brother, had it with Body Harvest and F1 World Grand Prix, my Dad is an F1 fan, so got an absolutely awful V3 racing wheel to go with it. During covid, I got back into racing games, and went a little mental.
Hi, something you might want to check before releasing; several current Lemmy apps are having trouble displaying lists of very large images. Either they try to load them all in one go, instead of going for the thumbnail as a preview (causing the app to crash), or they only get the preview and then don't show the full size when opening.
I think so, I like sync because of its massive customisation potential, and it also offered some quick template like way to change them, so it was never overwhelming. You can make sync the way you like it, and I've been following the dev for a while as well. Truly passionate fellow.
Using Voyager and the devs have been more than awesome. I don't encounter any bugs on Android. Still gonna throw my money at Sync when it arrives though. Sync was the only reason I even used reddit. A bit wierd but before I stumbled on the Sync I couldn't even stand reddit. I was a Sync user, not a reddit user.
Wow! Congratulations!
It's really weird - I feel like going back to reddit, because it looks and feels exactly like when I used Reddit back when it was awesome to do - through sync... But it's not reddit.
Kinda tells me how much of my "Reddit experience" was actually not Reddit, but sync.
Yes, but there are alternative clients like Aurora which allow you to download your apps that you've purchased on Google Play. It essentially scrapes the Google Play website to get the apk that you have access to after purchasing.
It's a different issue than requiring Google Play Services on the device. I think you implemented some new license checking in v22 which broke the app on degoogled devices (just a guess). V19 worked great.
Honestly, to me, Connect feels much like Sync for Reddit did. Itvs to be expected that devs are going to learn from eachother in the process of developing for Lemmy, especially given the "youthfulness" of the platform.
I'm really looking forward to it! I've been using the novelty of Lemmy to try out a bunch of different apps, and I look forward to trying Sync for the first time.
Pre registered! Will this also have the option for the old style of comments? I've been using sync for so long that I prefer the old sync comments style to the new one lol.
Any idea what this is? LJ doesn't seem to be the developer so I'm confused. I've seen an iOS user make a post here before and asking about it as if they were a past user of it
Any chance of android 7 support? I know existing app devs had to do some things to make it work. If it would prevent the app from being the best it could be though then I understand.
Edit: I don't intend to sound ungrateful. I recognise that few people are stuck on such an old device. I was just curious since the original Sync worked fine here.
I'm well aware. It's like three phones back for me. Just happens to be the only one in my possession fully working right now and thought I'd ask, sorry if it sounded rude.
Either way, thanks for your hard work. I still intend on getting pro. Hopefully I'll be able to get my main phone fixed soon.
What's the difference between lemmy and kbin, as far as Sync is concerned? I don't mean APIs, but in terms of user experience, what would change for me coming over from kbin?
You should theoretically have access to the same communities/magazines.
On desktop kbin seems to have nicer looking UI and also seems to have better sorting algorithm (at least by default) because when I connect to lemmy server even though I subscribed to the same communities, it feels more deserted for some reason.